July 2009
2 posts
Interesting Diet
I was checking out this new diet I came across on the twitter feed. It’s an interesting article. The diet basically takes us back to our human ancestors in the hunter gatherer years. Before the advent of agriculture technology that enabled our ancestors to give us our processed food legacy.
I want to find a way to incorporate this kind of diet with my lifestyle. I do not think I can...
Hiatus
It’s been about a month since the last post, and about equally as long since I have given some serious time to my fitness goals. Life has given me some tough lessons in recent days and I hope I have come out of it with a better understanding of where I want to go.
In reviewing my goals from the last post, the ambitiousness of it gave me a renewed sense of direction on what I am supposed to...
June 2009
6 posts
Goal Setting
Sometimes it’s good to periodically review the goals you have set and set new ones. To this point I have just been interested in losing weight. I came from an unbelievable 287 lbs nearly 5 years ago and through all the fad diets and workout programs, I have never been able to maintain a consistent rate of weight loss until this year.
At New Years, eve I was celebrating the coming of what is...
May 2009
2 posts
An Excerpt from "Games Slim People Play"
Psychologist Frank Laverty in 1977 said this,
“A cure is possible only if you accept that you are totally responsible for your feelings and actions. Others cannot make you feel good or bad nor can they make you behave in any particular way. You and you alone make the decision. We are influenced by others, but the final decision is ours.
Many obese people avoid accepting responsitbility for...
April 2009
5 posts
Calorie Shifting - What is it really?
Calorie Shifting has become a buzz word of debate in some circles of the weight loss industry. But what is Calorie Shifting and how does it work?
Calorie Shifting was developed as a counter-strategy of what I call “Low Something Diets”. You know what I mean: every where you turn is another low this and low that diet. Once it’s a low fat diet, another time it’s low carb or even NO carb. There are...
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare”. Japanese proverb
Thanks 4 the supportive E-mails & tweets !
So I finished the 11 Day Diet challenge and I took a few days break. So now its Wednesday, four days later and I am starting again. I took a little longer than I should have, but I still observed the rules, I ate what I wanted, but i never got full, and I always ate every 4 hours. I am starting my second round today, however I am going to go for a little longer than 11 days, its April 1st, but...
March 2009
20 posts
Day 11 Vitals (March 28, 2009 @ 12:30 pm)
Age: 27 years, 5 months, 24 days Height: 5 feet 11 inches Weight: 224 lbs (9.5 pounds lost) Body Fat: 31 percent BMI: 31.2 Pants Size: 36 (fits very loosely)
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”
– David Viscott
Taking Time Out of Work
I have a busy work schedule and work long hours. That means I have to eat three of my meals at the office every day. Its easy to get side tracked and miss a meal, so to prevent myself from slipping, I programmed the calendar on my phone to buzz me whenever I had to eat. The good thing about some of the food in the diet is that you can eat it from your desk. A good example is the macadamia nuts and...
“You’re never beaten until you admit it.”
– George S. Patton
Other People’s Food
I thought it would drive me crazy to have to see other people eating “real food”. The first couple of days, I would start to crave whatever it was anyone else was eating. The smell of the food in the air is also tempting. What I find helpful is reminding yourself that you aren’t starving yourself, you can have as much of the food as you need provided you don’t get full. Also, simply preparing good...
“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.”
– Ralph Marston
Food Preparation
The ebook tells you what to eat, and gives you some basic preparation tips, but it didn’t really go into detail on where to get the stuff or how to cook stuff so it tastes good. Here are some of my tips if you attempt this.
Scrambled Eggs
I didn’t want to use too much oil so I use spray on low fat olive oil on a non stick skillet. Separate the whites and the yolks and scramble them separately....
“You may delay, but time will not.”
– Benjamin Franklin
My Goals
When I embarked on the first of my Life Coach training Modules last year in Colorado, one of the most important things that I went away with is the importance of setting well defined goals. The power of a Well-Formed outcome is already Half of the battle Won, with a clear as can be map of what lies ahead… Setting ourselves up this way, aligns those nagging desires and true intentions of...
On The Menu
I went on the website to generate my diet. I liked the fact that you can choose the food you want to eat. This was especially helpful since I a trying to stay away from beef and chicken. This is the diet it generated for me.
Day 1
Scrambled Eggs & Walnuts
Fresh Apples, Broiled Sea Bass &Low Fat Milk
Delicious Shrimp & Hard Boiled Eggs
Tuna Salad Plate & Broiled Halibut
Day 2
...
Beginning Vitals (March 17, 2009 11:30pm)
Age: 27 years, 5 months, 13 days
Height: 5 feet 11 inches
Weight: 233.5 lbs
Body Fat: 34 percent
BMI: 32.6
Pants Size: 36
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Build the Right Weight Loss Mindset
Effective Weight loss is not a simple matter of finding the right diet and exercise plan, to really succeed at weight loss and keep the weight off you must create a strong weight loss mindset.
Follow these 5 simple steps and you will create a weight loss mindset that supports your efforts and makes losing weight and maintaining that weight loss easy.
1. Build a Strong Desire
Whatever you want...
